Essential Nature Quotes
42 quotes by 36 authors
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
— Oswald Chambers
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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on…
— Laozi
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Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,…
— Fritjof Capra
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However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.…
— Albert Einstein
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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature,…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to…
— Nichiren
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Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built…
— Rodney Collin
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,…
— Plato
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The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential…
— Deepak Chopra
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One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan…
— David Simon
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Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our…
— Sharon Gannon
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The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the…
— John Daido Loori
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